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The Trump administration’s apostle of cutting-edge science laid out a sweeping vision this week for blending the White House’s ongoing conservative culture war with continued American technological dominance.

“Science cannot be subject to ideology, nor should scientists march blindly in lockstep,” Office of Science and Technology Policy director Michael Kratsios told the National Academy of Sciences Monday. “Blindly trusting in The Science, with a capital T and capital S, is inimical to free inquiry and open debate and is thus the enemy of scientific progress. The beginning of knowledge is the knowledge of ignorance … It is convention, dogma, and intellectual fad that resist revision and correction.”

Kratsios’ comments were the clearest articulation yet of how the second Trump administration thinks it can serve three political constituencies that often seem at odds: hardcore budget raiders like Office of Management and Budget chief Russell Vought, culture warriors obsessed with fighting “wokeness” and the ascendant, venture capital-powered tech right.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is now maneuvering to harm our democratic process with 4 deregulation orders, all tied together, so that no one would know that there is not 1, or 2 or 3 separate proceedings, but 4 different Orders, and most were passed with no comment period and no other Commissioners invited. And forget the formalities, this is being done by the Wireline Bureau, and has been presented as a press release from the Chairman, with no docket numbers or any formal normal presentation to indicate this was a package of harms and burdens on the public.

And after we filed to request for a full review of these slight of hand procedures, USTelecom, the wireline association historically tied to AT&T et al,. decided to go after the IRREGULATORS to block our call to halt these proceedings and start again so that the public and the other commissioners can add their issues, concerns, and corrections of the biased -corporate information that the FCC is quoting as being a solution set for the Digital Divide.

Let us explain and start again.

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President Donald Trump’s whirlwind tour of the Gulf last week – and the attendant blitz of AI dealmaking – promised numbers so absurd they seemed mystical. And no company was more at the center of the action than Nvidia.

The Santa-Clara based company, which makes the powerful chips core to training the world’s most sophisticated AI models, signed a deal to sell “several hundred thousand” of its most advanced chips to Saudi Arabia. Another deal is reportedly under discussion for Nvidia to sell more than a million chips to the UAE.

Nvidia has recently emerged as a tentpole of the U.S. tech renaissance promised by Trump. 

Boston — The Healey-Driscoll Administration is raising the alarm about the Trump Administration’s recent action to terminate $14.1 million in federal funding to expand internet access for veterans, rural communities and individuals with disabilities in Massachusetts. The previously awarded funding from the Digital Equity Act (DEA) Capacity Grant Program would have provided communities with the tools, skills and resources to expand the adoption and use of high-speed internet service. 

“Everyone deserves access to the internet. It’s essential for being able to participate in our economy and utilize the resources and services that so many of us rely on,” said Governor Maura Healey. “It’s terrible that the Trump Administration is blocking our efforts to bring internet access to veterans, rural communities and individuals with disabilities across the state.” 

Phoenix is on the verge of enacting zoning regulations to limit where data centers can be located.

Why it matters: Data centers use large amounts of energy and space and can bring negative effects like noise pollution to surrounding communities, per an analysis by city staff.

State of play: The city wants to direct data centers away from mixed-use, walkable and transit-oriented communities.

• They create few jobs, take up land that could be used for employment and housing, and make "inactive" stretches of street, staff wrote.

Zoom in: Under the proposal, data centers would be restricted to areas zoned for industrial and some commercial use.